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Another school for Lower Manhattan to incubate at Tweed
BY Aline Reynolds
Downtown parents and elected officials won a hard-fought battle this week as it pertains to combating public school overcrowding.

New proposal would bring health center, condos to St. Vincent’s site
BY Albert Amateau
A neighborhood health center with a free-standing emergency department could open in St. Vincent’s Hospital’s O’Toole building as early as 2013. It is part of a proposal that would include the residential redevelopment of the old St. Vincent’s campus with a total of 300 luxury condos.

New Tenement Museum center is taking shape on Orchard St.
By Al Barbarino
In less than four months, in late June, the large wooden panels that cordon off the corner building at 103 Orchard Street. on the Lower East Side will come down. Glass panels will showcase the new Sadie Samuelson Levy Immigrant Heritage Center — and Ruth Abram will witness her dream.

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Money, love, lust and revenge on two different stages
BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER
Two plays set by their English playwrights centuries ago in Italy sailed into Lower Manhattan last week, both with money, or its absence, as the fulcrum of the plot and both with feisty heroines subjected to male caprice. SPECIAL PHOTO FEATURE

Three rounds of boxing
TV show, play, tournament might hook you on the sweet science
COMPILED BY SCOTT STIFFLER
Want to become emotionally invested in a gritty underdog story or just watch two muscular guys wail on each other in a state-sanctioned bout that’s as artful as it is brutal? Only the sweet science known as boxing delivers. Try telling that to the general public, though.